Excellence

Mud made Joe DiMaggio mortal on July 17, 1941. It was only six blocks from the hotel to Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium, but Joe DiMaggio and Lefty Gomez knew they’ve never make it through the crowds on foot, so they hailed a 20-cent taxi ride to the ballpark. The stadium was packed with 67,000 fans. All of America—from rural countryside to the big city, in roadside diners and five-star restaurants, ranch hands, store owners, executives, and homemakers—was caught up in Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio’s … Read more about The Streak and the Legacy: The Joe DiMaggio Guide to Becoming a Dominant Player

It's over. Your company, project, product, or app failed. Perhaps it simply didn’t achieve the level of success you’d envisioned or the impact you’d hoped for, or maybe the failure was consequential enough to have long-term repercussions. Every dominant player I know or with whom I’ve co-created with has had the stinging experience of a business failure--some more than once. It can take a good long time for the painful memory to fade. … Read more about “As it turned out”